For most folks, 2009 was a tough and stressful year. Ours was no different – with some of the highest highs and lowest lows a startup business could imagine.
As we take stock of the past year – one thing is certain: We are just as grateful for the tough times as we are for the good times. It was during the toughest times were where we learned the most about our business an about our character as a company.
Our first blog post details the trials and tribulations of the 1st half of the year: An operator that we worked with for 2 years went out of business, we had to fire an incompetent software development team and essentially start from scratch, major challenges to the business plan, etc…
All of these have made us better, stronger and well positioned for growth in 2010 and beyond. We found a phenomenal partner in New Vectors Aviation and learned a lot in the process. We developed many additional features in our software suite that go far beyond booking and reservations to very sophisticated CRM and Flight Resource Management. And we finally launched the online system we have been working on for the past 4 years on November 6th 2009!
Moving forward, we have adapted our business model and technology (version 1.1 to be released in Q2 2009) to support almost any type of aircraft available for charter, most trip profiles, over 19,000 airports and heliports in the US and even more sophisticated CRM, resource management and optimization features.
It has been an amazing journey since we started out 4 years ago and we are very excited to move into 2010 for the next chapter of our story.
We hope you enjoyed your holidays and wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year!
Your friends at FlyMiwok
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